Daniel Dafoe
Data Scientist
California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Dafoe is a data scientist with 11 years of hands-on experience building production-ready ML and data engineering solutions across computer vision, cloud systems, and backend development. He has moved models from research to product—developing photogrammetry and mobile CV pipelines, training Faster/Mask R-CNN detectors, and migrating workloads between local and distributed cloud environments. As a tutor and instructor he translates complex concepts into practical skills, leading bootcamp webinars, mock interviews, and curriculum scripts that help others ship work faster. He combines a BS in Statistics with recent AI study at Nebius Academy, and brings a practical, metric-driven mindset honed through research roles at universities and consulting projects for organizations like the World Bank. Based in California, he pairs curiosity-driven learning with collaborative engineering to tackle ambiguous problems end-to-end. An underrated strength is his background in personal training and client-facing coaching, which informs his clear communication and habit of turning data into actionable progress.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Nebius Academy
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
danieldafoe/danieldafoe.com
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
Personal website.
Contributions:134 commits, 18 PRs, 148 pushes in 6 years 3 months
reactsasscssdesignaccessibility
danieldafoe/angular-a11y-helpers
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
A library of helpful directives and components aimed at improving accessibility in Angular applications.
Contributions:45 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
accessibilityangular
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